Nicki Minaj is coming to Name of Responsibility: Warzone and Fashionable Warfare 2 as an Operator — the franchise’s first “self-named feminine Operator,” writer Activision revealed Thursday. Whereas quite a few real-life celebrities have appeared in Name of Responsibility video games through the years, together with Snoop Dogg, Lionel Messi, and Kevin Durant, the one girls to look as Operators have been fictional. Till Nicki.
Minaj can be featured in Warzone and Fashionable Warfare 2 as a part of the sport’s “50 Years of Hip Hop Celebration,” the place she’ll be joined by Snoop Dogg and 21 Savage as Operators. Name of Responsibility’s builders warned that Minaj’s look within the recreation “isn’t ‘Chill Nicki’; that is Purple Ruby Da Sleeze” — a reference to the artist’s newest alter ego from her current music video.
Minaj could have her personal retailer bundle sooner or later throughout season 5 of Warzone and Fashionable Warfare 2 — which can possible embody that Barbie-pink assault rifle. (Becoming for “The Harajuku Barbie,” one other of Nicki’s personas.)
Nicki’s arrival in Name of Responsibility was heralded throughout a promo video launched final yr forward of Fashionable Warfare 2’s launch. That clip, “Squad Up,” featured the rapper alongside fellow artists, athletes, and actors, together with Lil Child, Bukayo Saka, and Pete Davidson, providing a glimmer of hope that the Bupkis star might additionally come to Name of Responsibility some day.
Snoop Dogg’s new Operator in Warzone and Fashionable Warfare 2 marks his third look within the shooter collection. Again in 2014, Snoop broke floor as one of many first movie star voice packs for multiplayer in Name of Responsibility: Ghosts. The rapper returned to the franchise final yr, in World Battle II type, as an Operator for Name of Responsibility: Vanguard and Warzone.
Season 5 of Name of Responsibility may even embody a reveal of this yr’s new recreation — aka Name of Responsibility 2023, aka Name of Responsibility: Fashionable Warfare 3 — in Warzone.
